Coral help

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 3, 2016

I need some assistance. All my corals are fine except goni has been closed a week and now my bubble is starting to close, all others are fine. Parameters are

PH 8
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Sg 1.024
Temp 79
Calcium 480
Alk 10
Mag 1350

I'm at a loss. They were both fine a week ago, no new lights or anything. Any ideas?

cloak · Oct 3, 2016

Patience?

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2010/4/corals

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/12/inverts

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 3, 2016

cloak said:
Patience?

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2010/4/corals

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/12/inverts

It has been 6 days for goni and 2 days for bubble. I will try to be more patient I guess!

cloak · Oct 3, 2016

If your in it for the long haul, the book is never ending.

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 3, 2016

cloak said:
If your in it for the long haul, the book is never ending.

I learned that when I started this hobby

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 3, 2016

Also forgot to add that phosphate is under .003

Skimm8 · Oct 3, 2016

Feed phytoplankton

Skimm8 · Oct 3, 2016

Small amounts every other day

saltyfilmfolks · Oct 3, 2016

Yup. Food. No and Po may be too low. Gonis like to be fed. Small particulates.
Does the bubble open up at night and look like a tentacled nightmare? Feed it then

Flow. Gonis I belive should look like Mesusa hair and faster than a torch likes. and bubbles will take more flow than I though. Both as turbulent as possible and not laminar.

Good luck. And beautiful tank.

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 3, 2016

saltyfilmfolks said:
Yup. Food. No and Po may be too low. Gonis like to be fed. Small particulates.
Does the bubble open up at night and look like a tentacled nightmare? Feed it then

Flow. Gonis I belive should look like Mesusa hair and faster than a torch likes. and bubbles will take more flow than I though. Both as turbulent as possible and not laminar.

Good luck. And beautiful tank.

Thank you!.. I'll try feeding the Bubble at night. And yes my goni looked awesome up till a week ago

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 4, 2016

Also I have never had nitrates In the tank. Not sure why! I do water changes every 7 days. Have skimmer rated for 65 gallons (mine is 29 plus 10 gallon sump) about 40 pounds live rock. I feed fairly light also but only have 5 fish

CastAway · Oct 4, 2016

My Goni closes up at night, so to feed I turn off all the flow while it's extended, then feed the fish off in a corner while dropping rehydrated CALA-fin on the goni. Trick is keeping the fish away as they cause my goni to retract and stop feeding.

Let us know how they respond to feeding.

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 4, 2016

CastAway said:
My Goni closes up at night, so to feed I turn off all the flow while it's extended, then feed the fish off in a corner while dropping rehydrated CALA-fin on the goni. Trick is keeping the fish away as they cause my goni to retract and stop feeding.

Let us know how they respond to feeding.

Will try that tonight, I use reef roids to feed corals. I usually only do 2x a week..should I feed more? Corals also get food leftover from feeding fish
It's Larry's Frozen that my lfs sells and recommends. All other corals are fine, I never even fed them when I first got them

saltyfilmfolks · Oct 4, 2016

slipknotgrrl83 said:
! I do water changes every 7 days. Have skimmer rated for 65 gallons (mine is 29 plus 10 gallon sump)

probably this. it fine to do , but you'll have lower nutrients and maybe have a harder time with some corals. also with filter feeders you'll have less organics in the water.
so a balance of either feeding more or slowing the wc and skimming,
your not far of at all,Im def not recommending a big change because the tank and corals look great. gonis can be a trick.

themcnertney · Oct 4, 2016

tough coral to keep. hope its doing better.

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 4, 2016

saltyfilmfolks said:
probably this. it fine to do , but you'll have lower nutrients and maybe have a harder time with some corals. also with filter feeders you'll have less organics in the water.
so a balance of either feeding more or slowing the wc and skimming,
your not far of at all,Im def not recommending a big change because the tank and corals look great. gonis can be a trick.

Ty I will hold off on water changes a few more days to maybe lower some nutrients like calcium which is always very high and mg which can get high too. Goni is still closed but if he starts opening enough to feed I will for sure. I see no sign of die off so hopefully he will pull through...

saltyfilmfolks · Oct 4, 2016

slipknotgrrl83 said:
Ty I will hold off on water changes a few more days to maybe lower some nutrients like calcium which is always very high and mg which can get high too. Goni is still closed but if he starts opening enough to feed I will for sure. I see no sign of die off so hopefully he will pull through...

Hopefully its just pouting!

slipknotgrrl83 · Oct 4, 2016

I hope so! He's my favorite even if he is a pain in the butt

stevo01 · Oct 4, 2016

I recently lost mine. I consider it my first coral death under my control. It was doing great for awhile. Showed growth. Thought I had it figured out. Thought, this corals not that hard to grow. Hahaha! It's a tough one and lasted 5 months for me. I'll try again sometime, but not soon.

saltyfilmfolks · Oct 4, 2016

Quit it guys!

I AM NOT BUYING THAT AMAZING SUPER HEALTHY GOLDEN YELLOW GONI AT THE LFS EVEN THOUGH ITS AWESOME AND THEY HAVE FOUR OF THEM!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

it perty, real perty...